What to do if your child is allergic to eggs

Eggs are highly nutritious and most people like to eat them. However, some people will develop rashes all over their body after eating eggs. Egg allergy is a very common condition and often occurs in infants under eight months old. Some children are born allergic to eggs. This is a family genetic factor and requires finding a suitable solution.

There is information showing that:

The incidence of food allergy among children under 5 years old in my country is about 4% to 6%, and 80% of them are allergic to eggs, especially egg protein.

When allergies occur, most of the symptoms are rashes, but some may also present as abdominal pain after eating eggs, unexplained crying, some may present as acute allergic reactions such as stinging nettles, and some may develop rashes several hours after eating, and recurring eczema. The most common food allergies in children are egg protein and milk protein.

To prevent and reduce egg allergies, the correct way to eat eggs should be:

After 8 months, add egg yolk to the baby's food, and within one year old, it is best to only eat egg yolk, not egg white;

Do not eat undercooked eggs;

It is best not to eat eggs when suffering from gastrointestinal diseases or febrile diseases, because the gastrointestinal barrier function is weakened, the digestive ability is reduced, and the protein components can easily pass directly through the gastrointestinal mucosa into the blood and cause allergies.

For children with a family history of allergies, it is important to help them find allergens. Allergic skin diseases (eczema), allergic rhinitis, allergic conjunctivitis, and asthma and other diseases harm children's growth and development and personality formation. Allergens should be checked, avoided as much as possible, and treated systematically. Try to let as many people as possible know about your child’s allergies. For example, when your child enters kindergarten or school, you should tell the teachers and medical staff. When dining out, be sure to inform the waiter of your child's allergies. Let children develop good eating habits, not eat snacks of unknown ingredients or eat out casually.

Pollen allergy is more common in older children and adults.

If milk and eggs are the most common causes of allergies in children, don't be overly nervous. Data show that this is temporary and more than 80% of children will get better after entering elementary school. However, even if you are no longer allergic to a food, you should not be careless because other allergens may cause new allergies. In older children and adults, the most common allergies are pollen or mite allergies.

People who are allergic to pollen must be careful when going out in the spring. Wear a mask, apply a barrier agent, prepare allergy medicine (such as loratadine or cetirizine), stay away from allergens as much as possible, and wash your nose with saline after returning home (for those with chronic rhinitis and sinusitis, it is recommended to buy a professional nasal wash device. For those who are allergic to mites, you should often dry your quilts, but most of us do not have this condition. You can use ultraviolet light, or use professional mite removal machines and mite removal detergents, all of which are effective.

The media should invite more allergy experts to popularize allergy knowledge, so that more frontline doctors, grassroots doctors, community doctors and the general public can begin to understand allergies, and pay great attention to anaphylactic shock and understand the first aid knowledge of anaphylactic shock. People with allergic constitutions should carry anti-allergic drugs with them. Some countries have introduced epinephrine pens as a backup for patients with allergic constitutions, but they are not yet popular in my country.